Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. It's an enormous goal to accomplish and we need great people to help us achieve it.

We invite you to come learn about Google and meet some of our Googlers at this exciting event.

Who: All Computer Science and Engineering students, but anyone with interest in software development is welcome!

What: Engineering Reliability - The GMail Story, followed by a Technical Interview Workshop

When: 10/5/2014, 10:30-13:00

10:30-11:30: Talk

11:45-13:00: Technical interview workshop

Where: Amphitheater Peukios Georgiadis, Andreas Themistokleous Building, Athinon Street, Limassol

Speaker: Constantinos Neophytou, Google Inc.

Host: Dr. Michael Sirivianos, Dpt of Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering and Informatics, CUT

Talk Abstract:

You wrote a web service, running on your server, serving data out of MySQL. You can point your web browser to it, and it works. Does that mean you're done? Now imagine your service needs to serve 100M people from around the world. What needs to change? What if there's a power cut to your server? An earthquake where your server lives? These and many more questions are asked daily by SREs around the world. In this talk, you will get a brief introduction into Site Reliability Engineering and how it makes the Cloud go round(trip), followed by a closer look at how GMail was developed to such a massive scale and yet still maintains incredible uptime.

Speaker Short Bio:

Constantinos Neophytou received a BA degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in NH, USA in 2006. He later spent a year in India working on a personal project, after which he moved to the UK and received a PgC from Bristol University before starting his first job at Bloomberg in 2008. At Bloomberg he worked on the internal messaging system, which delivers upwards of 200 million emails a day in real-time. In 2011 he started working for Morgan Stanley, developing high-frequency trading connectivity software, focusing on sub-millisecond processing and message delivery. In August 2012 he started his current role at Google, which is Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering for the Ads Pipeline team, responsible for several pipelines the biggest of which is the Google Analytics logs processing and aggregation.

Registration:

The talk portion of the event is open to the public but registration is needed. The technical interview part of the workshop is open only to CUT students and staff.

If you’re interested in attending, please complete the Registration form so that we can better prepare. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Brd4vGGk_XURPOPn6wyUhZZgX01VAof6qnio8uHQDp8/viewform

Please check out our technical opportunities at http://www.google.com/about/jobs/students/.

We hope you'll stay in touch with us by checking out the Google Students blog http://www.googleforstudents.blogspot.com/, and by following us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GoogleStudents/posts.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Constantinos Neophytou and the Google University Programs Team

Additional notes:

The students participating in the technical interview workshop portion of the event have to be well-versed in programming and fundamentals of software engineering. The workshop is only for students and staff at the Cyprus University of Technology.

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th year and graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering students qualify by definition.

The workshop is also probably accessible to some Multimedia and Geoinformatics  students. 

Other Engineering, Internet Communication or Finance students may also be qualified given that they are very familiar with the above concepts.

Relevant posters:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B31WJwMeVymmNGREdDRHMng0QkU/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B31WJwMeVymmbzRGS1RMbXR4SlU/edit?usp=sharing